Pierre-Olivier Joseph

Joseph got his first full taste of NHL action last season. He scored five goals and 21 points while averaging 15:15 of ice time across 75 games. The 6-foot-2 blueliner put 108 shots on goals while laying out 88 hits. Joseph will again be limited to a bottom-four role during the 2023-24 season and shouldn't see much power-play time. Just three of his 21 points last year came with the man advantage. His offensive ceiling is limited to something in the 20-to-25-point range.

Joseph spent most of the 2021-22 season in the minors, racking up 33 points through 61 games with AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. The 23-year-old defender should stick with the Penguins for most of the 2022-23 campaign, but he'll likely be in and out of the lineup as a rotational, bottom-four option, severly limiting his fantasy upside.

Joseph was acquired by the Penguins from the Coyotes this offseason as part of the Phil Kessel deal and will bolster the organization's defensive prospect pool, which had become suspect in recent years due to the club's, understandable, win-now mentality. Still, the 20-year-old Canadian won't be seeing the NHL any time soon, given Pittsburgh is loaded on the back end and already has Juuso Riikola and Zach Trotman waiting in the wings. In his final junior season, Joseph notched nine goals and 38 assists in 62 games for a pair of QMJHL clubs. At this point, only fantasy owners in the deepest of formats will want to stash the blueliner away considering how far he is from making the 23-man roster.